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astro-ph2005★ 100 cited

Resolving the disk rotation of HD 97048 and HD 100546 in the [O I] 6300A line: evidence for a giant planet orbiting HD 100546

B. Acke, M. E. van den Ancker

Aims. We intend to spatially and spectrally resolve the [O I] emission region in two nearby Herbig stars. Methods. We present high-resolution (R = 80,000) VLT/UVES echelle spectra…

astro-ph2005★ 146 cited

The mid- and far-infrared colours of AGB and post-AGB stars

M. A. T. Groenewegen

With the advent of space missions, like SPITZER and ASTRO-F, with sensitive detectors in the near- and mid-infra red covering a reasonable field-of-view and having a good spatial r…

astro-ph2005★ 14 cited

Multiperiodicity in the large-amplitude rapidly-rotating Ceph ei star HD 203664

C. Aerts, P. De Cat, J. De Ridder +4

We perform a seismic study of the young massive Cephei star HD 203664 with the goal to constrain its interior structure. Our study is based on a time series of 328 new Geneva 7-…

astro-ph2005★ 1 cited

Analysis of MERCATOR data Part I: variable B stars

P. De Cat, M. Briquet, C. Aerts +7

We re-classified 31 variable B stars which were observed more than 50 times in the Geneva photometric system with the P7 photometer attached to the MERCATOR telescope (La Palma) du…

astro-ph2005

Observational results for northern and southern (candidate) gamma Doradus stars

P. De Cat, K. Goossens, F. Bouckaert +7

We report on observational results obtained for 78 objects originally classified as bona-fide or candidate gamma Doradus stars. For the southern objects, we gathered echelle spectr…

astro-ph2005★ 57 cited

A spectroscopic study of southern (candidate) gamma Doradus stars. I. Time series analysis

P. De Cat, L. Eyer, J. Cuypers +9

We present results of a spectroscopic study of 37 southern (candidate) gamma Doradus stars based on echelle spectra. The observed spectra were cross-correlated with the standard te…

astro-ph2005

Trends in Space Astronomy and Cosmic Vision 2015-2025

Catherine Turon, Chris Done, Andreas Quirrenbach +14

As a short introduction to the astronomy session, the response of the community to the Call for Themes issued by ESA and the specific themes selected by the Astronomy Working Group…

astro-ph2005

Estimating stellar oscillation-related parameters and their uncertainties with the moment method

Joris De Ridder, Geert Molenberghs, Conny Aerts

The moment method is a well known mode identification technique in asteroseismology (where `mode' is to be understood in an astronomical rather than in a statistical sense), which…

astro-ph2005

The Metallicity Dependence of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation

M. Romaniello, M. Mottini, F. Primas +3

We have assessed the influence of the stellar iron content on the Cepheid Period-Luminosity (PL) relation by relating the V band residuals from the Freedman et al (2001) PL relatio…

astro-ph2005

The Chemical Composition of Cepheids in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds

M. Mottini, M. Romaniello, F. Primas +3

We have measured the elemental abundances of 68 Galactic and Magellanic Cepheids from FEROS and UVES high-resolution and high signal-to-noise spectra in order to establish the infl…

astro-ph2005★ 64 cited

Amorphous alumina in the extended atmosphere of Alpha Orionis

T. Verhoelst, L. Decin, R. Van Malderen +7

In this paper we study the extended atmosphere of the late-type supergiant Alpha Orionis. Infrared spectroscopy of red supergiants reveals strong molecular bands, some of which do…

astro-ph2005★ 96 cited

Disk and wind interaction in the young stellar object MWC 297 spatially resolved with VLTI/AMBER

F. Malbet, M. Benisty, W. J. De Wit +15

The young stellar object MWC 297 has been observed with the VLT interferometer equipped with the AMBER instrument. MWC 297 has been spatially resolved in the continuum with a visib…

astro-ph2005★ 100 cited

Asteroseismology of the Beta Cephei star 12 (DD) Lacertae: photometric observations, pulsational frequency analysis and mode identification

G. Handler, M. Jerzykiewicz, E. Rodriguez +28

We report a multisite photometric campaign for the Beta Cephei star 12 Lacertae. 750 hours of high-quality differential photoelectric Stromgren, Johnson and Geneva time-series phot…

astro-ph2005★ 42 cited

ESO-VLT and Spitzer spectroscopy of IRAS05328-6827: a massive young stellar object in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Jacco Th. van Loon, J. M. Oliveira, P. R. Wood +10

We present the first thermal-infrared spectra of an extra-galactic Young Stellar Object (YSO), IRAS05328-6827 in the HII region LHA 120-N148 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The obse…

astro-ph2005★ 38 cited

The massive binary CPD-41degr7742 II. Optical light curve and X-ray observations

H. Sana, E. Antokhina, P. Royer +4

In the first paper of this series, we presented a detailed high-resolution spectroscopic study of CPD - 41degr7742, deriving for the first time an orbital solution for both compone…

astro-ph2005★ 26 cited

A study of the B and Be star population in the field of the LMC open cluster NGC2004 with VLT-FLAMES

Christophe Martayan, Anne-Marie Hubert, Michele Floquet +5

Observations of hot stars belonging to the young cluster LMC-NGC2004 and its surrounding region have been obtained with the VLT-GIRAFFE facilities in MEDUSA mode. 25 Be stars were…

astro-ph2005★ 80 cited

Fundamental parameters of Be stars located in the seismology fields of COROT

Yves Y. Fremat, Coralie Neiner, Anne-Marie Hubert +4

In preparation for the COROT space mission, we determined the fundamental parameters (spectral type, temperature, gravity, vsini) of the Be stars observable by COROT in its seismol…

astro-ph2005★ 87 cited

The 7Be(d,p)2alpha cross section at Big Bang energies and the primordial 7Li abundance

C. Angulo, E. Casarejos, M. Couder +15

The WMAP satellite, devoted to the observations of the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, has recently provided a determination of the baryonic densit…

astro-ph2005★ 21 cited

The symmetric dust shell and the central star of the bipolar planetary nebula NGC 6537

M. Matsuura, A. A. Zijlstra, M. D. Gray +2

We present high-resolution images of the strongly bipolar planetary nebula NGC 6537, obtained with Hubble Space Telescope and with the infrared adaptive optics system on the Very L…

astro-ph2005★ 27 cited

The orbit of the close spectroscopic binary epsilon Lupi and the intrinsic variability of its early B-type components

K. Uytterhoeven, P. Harmanec, J. H. Telting +1

We subjected 106 new high-resolution spectra of the double-lined spectroscopic close binary epsilon Lupi, obtained in a time-span of 17 days from two different observatories, to a…

astro-ph2005★ 57 cited

Asteroseismic diagrams for solar-type stars

Anwesh Mazumdar

We explore the feasibility of applying the Christensen-Dalsgaard diagram to real asteroseismic data and provide quantitative measures of the uncertainty associated with the results…

astro-ph2005★ 34 cited

An asteroseismic study of the Beta Cephei star Theta Ophiuchi: spectroscopic results

M. Briquet, K. Lefever, K. Uytterhoeven +1

We present the results of a detailed analysis of 121 ground-based high-resolution high S/N spectroscopic measurements spread over 3 years for the Beta Cephei star Theta Ophiuchi. W…

astro-ph2005★ 104 cited

Inter-occurrence Times in the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld Sandpile Model: A Comparison with the Turbulent Statistics of Solar Flares

Maya Paczuski, Stefan Boettcher, Marco Baiesi

A sequence of bursts observed in an intermittent time series may be caused by a single avalanche, even though these bursts appear as distinct events when noise and/or instrument re…

astro-ph2005★ 82 cited

Mira Variables in the OGLE Bulge fields

M. A. T. Groenewegen, J. A. D. L. Blommaert

(abridged) The 222000 I-band light curves of variable stars detected by the OGLE-II survey in the direction of the Galactic Bulge have been fitted and have also been correlated wit…